The effort and weariness. At sea for so long. Adrift. A tide that turns. Unsafe waters off the coast of Brazil. Another continent, fluent in Portuguese. Marisa’s notebooks; strange unfinished ideas, burned them all. A new plan, metamorphosis. From Düsseldorf to Belém, leaving her family behind. Years since she’d seen her mother. All she ever wanted was time.
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Notes: I wrote about Marisa in the eponymously titled poem in my book, ‘Swords’. She is also mentioned in the notes to story ‘Eight Three’ in ‘I Thought There Would Be More’. The Spring Statement was delivered today by Rishi Sunak, Chancellor of the Exchequer. Despite this event, I had already decided on the title yesterday as ‘I Fought the Law’ by The Clash was featured in a film I was watching and appears on ‘The Cost of Living’ E.P. which I bought in 1979.
‘I Know That Now But I Didn’t Know That Then‘ by Paul Busst is a collection of tales of the diminutive published by Phantom Page and is available in paperback.
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